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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wish list for VT100 R > 2.8
Message-ID: <8803150641.AA22381@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 15 Mar 88 06:41:55 GMT
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>> A much better idea would be a 'talk' client/server pair for DNET.
>
>	Good idea.  If anybody would get off their laurels and release DNET to
>us, I am sure an implimentation could be done here in a very short period of
>time, as well as a VMS port, an Atari (the 'A' word) ST port, and an IBM PC
>port.  People could even get college credit for it!
>
>	As of yet, we have still to see this mythic monster, DNET.

	Be patient.  I did say "3 weeks" about 10 days ago, I still have a
week.  Do you want a buggy version?  The alpha release I did a month ago
went very well, and many small bugs were fixed and many features added.  
One feature being a talk-server/window ... you want a talk window?  how 
about two? three?  It will be in the release.

	Speaking of which, due to school load I think I will release DNET
without the parallel port driver (i.e. works only with the serial port). 
BUT you can specify the device driver and unit on the command line so
as soon as a bi directional parallel port driver that emulates a serial.device
gets written, it will work.

					-Matt